I am not sure if it is related to the work you guys are doing or not, but the platform usability and performance as a whole has been really poor these past two weeks. The ability to use the blockchain goes in and out and any time you perform activity on the blockchain you often have to do the same thing multiple times before it actually goes through. this goes for posting, leaving a comment, voting etc etc etc. Not sure if you guys are aware or not, so just thought I'd mention it.
I haven't seen it myself and it hasn't been mentioned to me. There was a glitch with inet connectivity to the image server for about 10 minutes or so a couple of days ago, but that's all I'm aware of. What web site are you using and what api server is it configured to use?
I'm using hive.blog. How do I tell what api server it is using?
The API server setting is buried under the Advanced setting of your settings under your profile page. But if you haven't set it, it should be default to https://api.hive.blog and falling back to https://anyx.io if it has any problems. We haven't had any issues reported with api.hive.blog recently. There was a certificate issue that affected https://anyx.io recently, I've been told.
If you're experiencing this problem currently, you can go to the advanced section and try changing your api server. But I asked around, and no one else has reported a similar problem.
I will give those a try. Thanks for your help!
As a follow up FYI, I switched to the anyx.io api server from the api.hive.blog default and things have been working much much better. Just a heads up.
It's possible you are geographically closer to anyx's node. On the BitShares network, the API nodes would actually advertise their location, so people could connect up to their nearest node. Eventually we'll probably build in code to detect which node has the least latency for the given user.
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What RPC node are you using?
How do I tell that on hive.blog?
https://wallet.hive.blog/@jcornel/settings
If you have issues, always try changing nodes in Hive Keychain and Peakd.com settings (if you are using Peakd).
I know Anyx had a hiccup yesterday and I changed nodes and everything was fine immediately.
I mostly use hive.blog, but not sure how to see what node it is using? I have also had issues with keychain though as well.
You cannot choose nodes on Hive.blog, but this is on the list of things to add in the future.
I do highly recommend peakd, it is better in every way and allows you to change nodes as needed. Even if you only use it when you have problems with Hive.blog, I think you will have a better experience.
I am not sure what node Hive.blog uses, I believe it swaps off a couple of nodes, Anyx being one of them and could explain your issue (yesterday only as I haven't seen any problems prior, but I don't use the default Hive node).
You can set your API node now. It's a setting under your profile/settings/advanced.
Nice!
I looked real quick but didn't see it but I got confused by the icon, it seems backwards.
This to me shows advanced settings are not collapsed, but in fact it is.
This arrow should be reversed as I would never have known there were more settings if you didn't mention it. Looked like the muted users were the advanced settings.
Actually, that's been bugging me too. I've passed on your feedback.
Ok will give that a try, thanks for the tips. I have also had problems using keychain while playing Dcity as well... specifically getting transactions to process. I often have to refresh it a couple times to get it to work and/or I get an error message...
Lol as a perfect example, here's what I just got when trying to reply to your comment:
It doesn't always say "network request failure" though, sometimes it just spins and spins forever and I end up refreshing a couple times.
I had a problem with dcity yesterday, I switched nodes in Keychain and it worked perfectly. I would recommend setting the default node in keychain to Anyx.io, 99% of the time it's solid. Switch it whenever you run into a problem and this should go away.
Will do, thanks for the help!
One other thing I noticed is that the participation rate is 99.21% right now, so there must be a witness missing blocks. That could result in a delay, if your action was done around the time of the missed block.
Try https://ecency.com, similar but faster and lighter experience, it also saves you data bandwidth.